Round the Red Lamp; Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Methuen & Co, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Good. Red cloth, toned and soiled, bumped at the edges and corners. Bound with some reading wear and a forward lean, foxed at the edges and endpapers through the Preface, former owner's signature inside the front board. A collection of fictional stories that serve as Conan Doyle's peak into the "darker side" of medical life published at least in part to "shock [readers] into seriousness.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10274
- Title
- Round the Red Lamp; Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life
- Author
- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1894
- Keywords
- Medicine, Health, Surgeon, 1800s, 19th Century, English History, Mystery, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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Woodstock, Illinois
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...